Use this administrative console page to manage the settings for your service references. Service references can inherit the policy sets and bindings of the service client or you can specify policy sets and bindings that are different from those of the service client.
This service references page displays configuration information for a service reference and the associated endpoints and operations. You can view and configure the service reference to either inherit policy set and binding configurations from the service client or to specify individual settings for the service reference by attaching policy sets and bindings that are different from the policy sets and bindings that are attached to the service client.
The Application, Module, and Service client links provide access to the application, module, and service client settings page.
To view this administrative console page, click
.You can also view this page by clicking
.You can specify a policy set and binding for a service reference that is different from the policy set attachment for the service. In addition, you can indicate to not attach a policy set to a service reference, even if a policy set is attached to the service. The default behavior is that a service reference, and its endpoints and operations, inherits the policy set attachment of the corresponding resources of the service. Service references are only valid for the client attachment type.
To attach or detach a policy set or binding, complete the following actions:
Button | Resulting action |
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Inherit | Click this button to clear the existing policy set and binding settings for the service reference and to use policy set attachments that are defined by the service client. By default, a service reference, as well as its endpoints and operations, inherits the policy set attachment of the corresponding resources of the service. |
Override | Click this button to override the existing policy set and binding settings for the service client and to either define separate policy sets and bindings for the service reference or to specify that a policy set is not attached to the service reference. |
Attach Client Policy Set | Click this button to view a list of policy sets available for attachment to the selected service reference, endpoint, or operation. Select a policy set from the list to attach; that policy set is attached to the selected service, endpoint, or operation. To close the menu list, click Attach Client Policy Set. This button is active only after you have clicked the Override button. |
Detach Client Policy Set | Click this button to detach a policy
set from a selected service reference, endpoint, or operation. After
the policy set is detached, if there is no policy set attached to
an upper-level service resource, the Attached Client Policy Set column
displays None and the Binding column displays Not
Applicable. If there is a policy set attached to an upper-level service reference resource or service client, the Attached Client Policy Set column displays policy_set_name (inherited) and the binding used for the upper-level attachment is applied. The binding name is displayed followed by (inherited). This button is active only after you have clicked the Override button. |
Assign Binding | Click this button to select from a
list of available bindings for the selected policy set attachment.
The options include the following:
To close the menu list, click Assign Binding. This button is active only after you have clicked the Override button. |
Selecting this check box specifies that you want to enable the inherit policy set attachments confirmation. You must expand the Preferences section to select this check box.
Specifies the name of the service reference, endpoints, or operations. The full resource name is displayed when you hover the mouse pointer over a service reference, endpoint or operation.
Specifies the policy set that is attached to the service reference, endpoints, or operations.
When the value in the column is a link, click the link to view or change settings about the attached policy set.
Specifies the policies that are applied to the service reference.
The Policies Applied service reference link is only enabled after you have clicked the Override button.
When the value in the column is a link, click the link to view or change settings about how the policies are applied.
For an endpoint or operation, the value is not a link and it is followed by the word inherited in parentheses. The setting is inherited from the parent application or service and you cannot change it. If there is no applied policy, the entries in the column are None or None (inherited).
Specifies the binding information available for a service reference, endpoint, or operation.
In this release, there are two types of bindings: application-specific bindings and general bindings.
Application-specific bindings
You can create application-specific bindings only at a policy set attachment point. These bindings are specific to, and constrained by, the characteristics of the defined policy. Application-specific bindings can provide configuration for advanced policy requirements such as multiple signatures; however, these bindings are reusable only within an application. Also, application-specific bindings have very limited reuse across policy sets.
When you create an application-specific binding for a policy set attachment, the binding begins in a completely unconfigured state. You must add each policy, such as WS-Security or HTTP transport, that you want to override the default binding, and fully configure the bindings for each policy that you add. For WS-Security policy, some high-level configuration attributes such as TokenConsumer, TokenGenerator, SigningInfo, or EncryptionInfo might be obtained from the default bindings if they are not configured in the application-specific bindings.
For service providers, you can create application-specific bindings only by selecting Service providers policy sets and bindings collection page, for service provider resources that have an attached policy set. Similarly, for service clients, you can create application-specific bindings only by selecting , on the Service clients policy sets and bindings collection page, for service client resources that have an attached policy set.
, on theGeneral bindings
You can configure general bindings to be used across a range of policy sets and they can be reused across applications and for trust service attachments. Although general bindings are highly reusable, they cannot provide configuration for advanced policy requirements such as multiple signatures. There are two types of general bindings: general provider policy set bindings and general client policy set bindings.
You can create general provider policy set bindings by clicking
in the general provider policy sets panel, or by clicking in the general client policy set and bindings panel. Read about defining and managing service client or provider bindings for more information. General provider policy set bindings might also be used for trust service attachments.